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quarantine

[kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-, kwawr-uhn-teen, kwor-] / ˈkwɔr ənˌtin, ˈkwɒr-, ˌkwɔr ənˈtin, ˌkwɒr- /




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When horses showed symptoms, Mr. Dugatkin writes, veterinarians and stable hands “did not isolate or quarantine them because they did not believe the disease was spread from one animal to another.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 7, 2026

About two weeks before the flight, the Crew-13 astronauts will begin quarantine at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

From Science Daily Sep. 1, 2026

In the end, Price’s designer makeover came at the perfect time, concluding just before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, which saw the family forced to quarantine inside the dwelling for weeks on end.

From MarketWatch Jul. 23, 2026

Director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the final contact of a person exposed to hantavirus on the MV Hondius had completed their quarantine period, tested negative and returned home.

From BBC Jul. 2, 2026

It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

To be sure, screwworms can be contained through quarantines, tighter surveillance, and other methods.

From Barron's Jun. 8, 2026

The department said it had also enacted "quarantines, movement controls, and surveillance" in that area.

From BBC Jun. 6, 2026

The quarantines for returning travelers could end up being lengthy.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

Connecting forced and chosen quarantines with experiences of incarceration, she explores also the solidarity that can arise in situations of the greatest difficulty and oppression.

From Salon May 8, 2025

JumboTrons, always on, regardless of power shortages, display the latest warnings about floods and quarantines.

From "Legend" by Marie Lu

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Monday that the U.S. plans to transport all seven Americans to Germany, where they will likely continue to be quarantined.

From MarketWatch May 18, 2026

Two of the exposed Californians are quarantined at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 2026

There, they will be quarantined for 72 hours and given a full assessment, before being sent home to self-isolate for 45 days, France's Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

From BBC May 10, 2026

Images of quarantined cruise passengers and officials in hazmat suits feel eerily reminiscent of the dozens of Covid-19 outbreaks that hit the cruise industry in early 2020.

From The Wall Street Journal May 9, 2026

Had he been quarantined, infected with some sleeping sickness?

From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs

Washington’s manic quarantining of cruise-ship passengers, its restricting of foreign entry, probably did next to nothing to slow spread until a vaccine and the less-virulent omicron variants arrived, which took a year.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

It didn’t take endless quarantining with my spouse during the COVID-19 pandemic to end my marriage of over two decades.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

In the U.S., some Americans who disembarked earlier in the trip and returned home before the outbreak had been made public are quarantining at home.

From MarketWatch May 12, 2026

Some other countries were only quarantining people from the ship for a few days before telling them to isolate at home, the minister said.

From Barron's May 11, 2026

Currie admitted that the illness was “strengthened by a particular construction of the atmosphere,” but he insisted that the best way to deal with it was by quarantining the sick.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy




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